Sinking RAWSSINM7
A remote fire weather station/4.2 mi away/1,319 ft/85 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 27 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 83° today.
Now. Bunker is 65° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the northwest at 5 mph, gusting to 16 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The day is 11 hours 16 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Bunker, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Bonne Terre (MO), 53 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.47 in in the last 24 hours, 0.96 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 3 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bunker, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Bunker, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sinking RAWSSINM7
A remote fire weather station/4.2 mi away/1,319 ft/85 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sinkin ForestS2231
At a soil climate station/4.2 mi away/1,350 ft/54 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Salem 10 W23909
At a climate reference station/30.4 mi away/1,198 ft/206 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Bunker 0.1 SEMO-RS-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/1,391 ft/13 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Round Spring 2SWRNDM7
At a cooperative observer's station/18.0 mi away/830 ft/574 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 4.2 mi from Bunker, Missouri. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:10 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
69.0 F with a dew point of 65.9 F, 90 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 2 mph, gusting 7 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 12 mph.
At 1,319 ft above sea level, 5 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.52 inHg and the temperature at 54.3 F; it reports 69.0 F, 14.7 F warmer than standard.
The full report of Sinking RAWS, in 5 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Round Spring 2SW (RNDM7), 18.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.